The company behind a ‘mental health action shooter’ envisions a health insurance-funded ‘golden age’ for gaming, and it just got FDA clearance to treat stress
The company behind a ‘mental health action shooter’ envisions a health insurance-funded ‘golden age’ for gaming, and it just got FDA clearance to treat stress
instead of shooting each other everyone will sit around in circles then have therapy session to talk and learn ways to work out their problems
raihidara
The worst thing that happened to gaming was getting psychological manipulation and Skinner boxes into it, the last thing it needs is more predators like this
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>The company’s biofeedback software development kit for games just received FDA clearance for “over-the-counter treatments for the reduction of stress and as an adjunctive treatment for high blood pressure.”
>Zengence isn’t exactly Call of Duty, though: Its enemies are “wraiths” and you’re shooting them with wizard beams, not hot lead. It uses the Meta Quest’s microphone—this is the biofeedback component—to detect when the player is humming or chanting. When it picks up those meditative tones, which indicate that the player is exhaling, it sends an orb into the environment which reveals wraiths to zap with your mental health wand.
>The basic idea is to get players into the relaxing, dopamine-rich “flow state” game designers and athletes often talk about, and to improve their everyday stress response by incorporating breathwork—a well-established stress management tool—into the mildly-demanding task of shooting accurately.
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instead of shooting each other everyone will sit around in circles then have therapy session to talk and learn ways to work out their problems
The worst thing that happened to gaming was getting psychological manipulation and Skinner boxes into it, the last thing it needs is more predators like this
>The company’s biofeedback software development kit for games just received FDA clearance for “over-the-counter treatments for the reduction of stress and as an adjunctive treatment for high blood pressure.”
>Zengence isn’t exactly Call of Duty, though: Its enemies are “wraiths” and you’re shooting them with wizard beams, not hot lead. It uses the Meta Quest’s microphone—this is the biofeedback component—to detect when the player is humming or chanting. When it picks up those meditative tones, which indicate that the player is exhaling, it sends an orb into the environment which reveals wraiths to zap with your mental health wand.
>The basic idea is to get players into the relaxing, dopamine-rich “flow state” game designers and athletes often talk about, and to improve their everyday stress response by incorporating breathwork—a well-established stress management tool—into the mildly-demanding task of shooting accurately.
I thought this was a real game at first.
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